- Date Of Birth: September 2, 1937
- Date Of Death: July 21, 2020
- State: Idaho
James Lyle McPherson
Long-time north central Idaho resident James Lyle McPherson, 82, died of complications of Alzheimer’s Disease on July 21, 2020.
Jim was born Sept. 2, 1937, in Grangeville, Idaho, to Charles Franklin McPherson and Maude Myrtle (Blewitt) McPherson. The fifth of six children, as a boy he lived in Elk City, Kooskia, various small towns in Montana, Washington, and Oregon, and finally Lewiston, graduating from Lewiston High School in 1955. He then attended Lewis Clark Normal School, where he met the love of his life and future wife, Edna Carol Boutinen. They married on June 7, 1957, and were seldom apart for the next 63 years.
